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The Development And Validation Of A Preschool Screening Instrument For The Identification Of Language Impaired And Educable Mentally Handicapped Head Start Children, Samuel Corrado

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study developed and validated a preschool screening instrument designed to identify children, enrolled in the Dade County Head Start program, who would be found eligible for placement in a language impaired or educable mentally handicapped program in the Dade County Public Schools (DCPS) system. Previously used commercial screening instruments were demonstrated to have unsatisfactory predictive validity. The new screening instrument was developed by utilizing already existing test items from a developmental skills assessment instrument, the Learning Accomplishment Profile-Diagnostic. These items were selected on the basis of their sensitivity and specificity hit rate scores. The reliability of the new screening …

The Effect Of Sexist Attitudes On The Perception Of Visual Artists By Community College And University Students, Kyra Belan

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study compared the effects of sexist labeling on the perceptions of visual artists by the community college and university students and determined their sex role orientation.

The 370 students were shown five slides of an artist's works and were given six versions of an artist's biography. It contained embedded sexual labeling (woman, girl, person/ she, man, guy, person/he). The Artist Evaluation Questionnaire was administered to the female and male community college and university students that required the students to evaluate the female and male artists on several aspects of affective and cognitive measures. The questionnaire consisted of 9 items …

Relevance Of The Community College Curriculum To The International Student, Michael Baglino

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to ascertain the perception of the level of satisfaction that international students have regarding the services and the relevance of the curriculum offered at Miami-Dade Community College. Trends and issues at universities and community colleges in providing services and an international curriculum for foreign students are outlined. Focus is on characteristics, personal and career needs as well as needs of national development for the students' countries.

A sample of students from four developing nations was selected to qualitatively and quantitatively determine their level of satisfaction. The nations are the Bahamas, Colombia, Haiti and Pakistan. …